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Overview

SAGE Seminar Series is a traveling education and training series for professionals in the promotional products industry. SAGE Seminar Series is open to both current customers and potential SAGE distributors and their salespeople. This is a great opportunity to learn how to get the most out of your current SAGE products or learn about the tools and services we provide and how they would fit into your company. Best of all, this interactive, classroom style seminar series is free to attend!
Join SAGE in your city from 9:00am - 12:30pm to learn about the SAGE suite of products.
   
SAGE Seminar Series sessions are available for PPAI Professional Development MAS/CAS credit! PPAI Professional Development is committed to industry-leading education with an emphasis on professional certification. Individuals with MAS/CAS Certification are seen as industry leaders—those who have attained a higher standard of professionalism, knowledge and experience. For more information on MAS/CAS Certification click here!

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2012 SAGE Seminar Series Schedule

Topics Include

2012 SAGE Seminar Series Schedule - 9:00am - 12:35pm
     
A Day in the Life of a Distributor – Room 1
Learn the benefits of all the SAGE products and services and how they interact with each other, and your business.
     
PPAI Update and Informational Session - Room 1
Know what's happening in your industry?
  • Get up-to-date on product safety, legislation, events and more
  • Learn how the Power of Two alliance between PPAI and SAGE® brings power to you
  • Earn points towards your MAS/CAS (Master Advertising Specialist and Certified Advertising Specialist), the industry's premier certifications
  • Discover how your PPAI membership provides you with a host of tools and services unique to the industry and vital to the success of your business

Backed by more than a century of success, your PPAI membership aligns you with the programs that are essential to advancing your position in the industry. PPAI has the things you need at the price you want! Your industry's not-for-profit trade association – Not-For-Profit! – For You!

 
Supplier Spotlight (not available in all cities) - Room 1
Learn about new and popular products from a local supplier. This session will give you fresh and innovative ideas on how to sell promotional products to your clients and creating lasting campaigns.
Room 1   Room 2

An Introduction to SAGE Online
Intended for distributors who are new to SAGE Online, this session teaches basic product searching techniques using common criteria such as categories and keywords to help you find the right promotional product, as well gives a high level understanding of all the SAGE Online modules.

  

SAGE Online Advanced Searching Techniques
An in-depth session on the advanced features you may not know about in SAGE Online. Designed for familiar users of SAGE Online, we'll show you how to take advantage of all of the advanced search options as well different sorting and viewing options in the search results.

 

  

Order Management in SAGE Online
Learn the ins and outs of the SAGE Order Management Area in SAGE Online.     Find out how to easily convert a professional sales presentation  into the proper forms in the ordering process such as customer quotes, requests for quote, sales orders, purchase orders, and invoices to manage the entire order with both your client and your suppliers. You'll also see how easy it is to integrate SAGE Online's order management area with QuickBooks or export data for other systems.


Building the Perfect Presentation in SAGE Online
In this session you will learn how to create a professional sales presentation for your clients in SAGE Online's Presentation Publisher, as well as set up a customized template for a more efficient  experience. You will also learn how to incorporate your customers' logos on products in SAGE Online with the Virtual Design Studio. We recommend this session for current users who want to learn more about SAGE Online and new users who are just getting started.


 

Tips & Techniques for Your Website
This session will give you an understanding of how to build a great website using SAGE WebExpress and WebExpress Pro and how they can help you market your distributorship better. By showing many example websites that include all of our web products, and websites that are utilizing our web products within their own website framework, you will learn the differences between each of them. In addition, find out how to perform the initial setup and configuration of your site to give you a professional, powerful web presence to support your business.

Customize Your Website Product Searching

Make sure your clients only see what you want them to with SAGE WebStore. Learn how to incorporate restrictions such as supplier ratings, locations, Verified suppliers, and more to guide your customers to the suppliers and products you want them to see.

  

How to Start A Company Store for Your Clients
Don't shy away from Company Stores! Company Stores are a great way to lock your customer into more of a program based way of doing business. This session will show you examples of different ways to utilize the SAGE Company Store product to help you incorporate them into your business model.


PPAI Professional Development is committed to industry-leading education with an emphasis on professional certification. Individuals with MAS/CAS Certification are seen as industry leaders—those who have attained a higher standard of professionalism, knowledge and experience. MAS/CAS certification is acquired through a combination of: active employment in the industry, education, industry contributions and the successful demonstration of expertise